Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology

Phorum 2011

Schedule of Talks for Fall 2011

PREVIOUS MEETINGS:

SEPTEMBER 12 - LARRY HYMAN
UC BERKELEY

Tonal Density and Tonal Typology

In previous work I have documented several ways in which tone is "different" from segmental and metrical phonology. I believe that a reasonable case can be made that tone offers both greater complexity and greater diversity than other aspects of phonology. Concerning such diversity, a relatively small number of languages distinguish up to five contrasting tone heights and multiple contours on each syllable. On the other hand...

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Phorum 2012

Schedule of Talks for Fall 2012

PREVIOUS MEETINGS:

SEPTEMBER 10 - WILL CHANG
UC BERKELEY

Linguistic mirages and lexical borrowing between Tongan and Samoan

Despite more than a thousand years of cultural exchange between Tonga and Samoa before European contact, very few loanwords have been identified as having diffused between them, even though there is a large vocabulary peculiar to these two Polynesian languages. The difficulty lies in the fact that when Tongan and Samoan show related forms, it is almost always possible to reconstruct a Proto...

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Phorum 2013

Schedule of Talks for Fall 2013

Previous Meetings SEPTEMBER 9 - LARRY HYMAN
UC BERKELEY

What is phonological typology?

In this talk I am concerned with the following questions:

What is phonological typology?

How are phonological typology and phonetic typology the same/different?

How are phonological typology and general phonology the same/different?

How are phonological typology and general typology the same/different?

Despite earlier work by...

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Phorum 2014

Schedule of Talks for Fall 2014

Previous Meetings SEPTEMBER 8 - Myfany Turpin (University of Queensland)
Linguistic fieldwork and song

Jointly hosted by Phorum and FForum(link is external)

Abstract(link is external)

SEPTEMBER 15 - Megha Sundara (UCLA)
Phonetic similarity biases phonological learning in infants

Researchers have suggested that learners are biased to prefer phonological mappings between...

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Phorum 2015

Schedule of Talks for Fall 2015 Previous Meetings AUGUST 31 - Larry M. Hyman (UC Berkeley)
Why underlying representations? SEPTEMBER 7 - No Meeting (Labor Day) SEPTEMBER 14 - Phorum Phround Phrobin (Come Prepared!)

We invite you to come with a phonetic or phonological topic or some interesting data that you are prepared to discuss for 5-10 minutes. If you do not have a topic to present, come prepared to ask questions and discuss the data that others bring!

SEPTEMBER 21 - Article Discussion (Ph Journal Club)

Finley, Sara. 2015. Learning nonadjacent dependencies in phonology:...

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Phorum 2016

Fall 2016 AUGUST 29 - You! (Phorum Round Robin)

Come to our first Phorum of the year with a 5 minute (or less) Ph-related musing, question, or update on what you did this summer.

SEPTEMBER 5 - No Phorum (Labor Day) SEPTEMBER 12 - Brian W. Smith (UC Santa Cruz)
French schwa and cumulative constraint interaction

Grammars with weighted constraints predict the existence of ganging effects: cases where two constraints combine to overcome the effect of one competing constraint. This talk presents a case study of one such ganging effect in French, using it to argue for an analysis in...